{"id":19691,"date":"2021-01-05T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19691"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:26:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:26:45","slug":"unveiling-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19691","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8yV0pu60Uqs\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Another way to look at \u201cunveiling\u201d is as a sort of \u201crecognition event,\u201d where something we thought we knew reveals itself to be radically different than our long-held assumptions. Our friend and CAC teacher Reverend Cynthia Bourgeault explores how this is a gospel phenomenon, one that takes place repeatedly, especially for Jesus. When people are attuned and awake, reality is often \u201cunveiled\u201d for them. Cynthia suggests that this might be a necessary step for all Christians in the twenty-first century. We\u2019ve become so used to the \u201cstory\u201d of our faith that a veil has been pulled over our eyes and we no longer experience its power to change our lives. She writes:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the most deadening aspect of our Christianity . . . is that we live it with twenty-twenty hindsight. We know the story. We know how the plot comes out. We know who the winners are. . . . The Bible contains the complete and divinely authorized biography of Jesus and furnishes the complete guide to what [we] should do to become his disciple. Everything needed for [our] personal salvation is right there. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re living in an era right now which some would call a major paradigm shift, where there\u2019s an opportunity as perhaps there hasn\u2019t been before to really open up the core questions again and ask, \u201cWhat is it that we mean by \u2018Christianity\u2019? What is this filter [or veil] that we\u2019re looking through? Who is this Master that we profess and confess in our life as we call ourselves Christian?\u201d . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we approach the [Jesus] story with the attitude, \u201cI\u2019ve heard that already, I know what that means,\u201d we fall asleep rather than allowing ourselves to be shocked awake. . . . For all such spiritual sleepwalking bypasses that crucial first step, that moment when the heart has to find its way not though external conditioning but through a raw immediacy of presence. Only there\u2014in \u201cthe cave of the heart,\u201d as the mystics are fond of calling it\u2014does a person come in contact with his or her own direct knowingness. And only out of this direct knowingness is sovereignty born, one\u2019s own inner authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Richard here: This is what Jesus offers people through his ministry\u2014an experience of inner authority, powerful enough to heal them and set them free from whatever was keeping them trapped. Often it seems as if Jesus is simply \u201cparting the veil\u201d between them and God. Cynthia offers this quote from Father Bruno Barnhart<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>As we accompany Jesus through the gospels, we are present at one dramatic meeting after another. One person after another experiences a mysterious power in Jesus that, from this moment, changes the course of his or her life. If we are fully present at the moment when we read such a narrative, we ourselves experience the liberating power of this awakening. 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Our friend and CAC teacher Reverend Cynthia Bourgeault explores how this is a gospel phenomenon, one that takes place repeatedly, especially for Jesus. 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